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I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4…

As far as I recall, none of the USB drives of the iMac era could read 400/800K GCR disks, they were PC drives that could only use 720/1440K disks. The Imation SuperDisk drives coul…

I wonder why the prebuilt Mac OS 9.2.1 VM has disappeared from the UTM gallery

I learned Objective-C and Cocoa in the days of manual reference counting. I use Swift for new personal projects, I don’t plan to rewrite the old ones in Swift for no reason, but I …

The Apple IIc was not a Mac

I did something similar, but targeting macOS on x86_64, so a lot of things were available through catalyst: https://github.com/zydeco/aah I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silico…

I made a platinum theme (and a few other mac-like ones) for xfwm some years ago: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1016308

Will it have a spatial file manager?

The EFI firmware is validated by the T2, which then passes it on to the x86 CPU. I assume this modification would not persist after the T2 reboots.

Pre-T2 macs had eficheck to verify the EFI's integrity, but with the T2 being so secure, it's not necessary anymore: https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5020911870672896

Not to be confused with Vapor ( https://vapor.codes ), the server-side Swift framework

That wasn't the QuickDraw that came to my mind

Is it just me, or do the pictures on chapter 3 and 4 look like prototypes with a 5.25” drive?

I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their core later, I wonder if O…

I think you still need dynamic codesign for this, if I try to do it my app gets killed with "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGKILL - CODESIGNING)", unless it's attached to the de…

I don't think it's possible to do something like on iOS, because you can't write to executable pages (IIRC making a page executable requires the "dynamic_codesign" entitlement, whi…

I first misread that as "The Purely Fictional Linux Distribution".

"usted" in Spanish comes from a contraction of "vuestra merced" (your mercy, your grace), similar to "você" in Portuguese, "vostede" in Galician, and "vostè" in Catalan. It's still…

I can see why they haven't come up with a catchy name for it yet.

Actually, that's exactly what Uber did: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber%20app%20store&sort=byPopu...

I did something similar as an easter egg, but with classic black and white Mac UI, but I never thought to publish it as a library.

[2] is a thermal camera with WiFi connectivity, it's completely unrelated.

I was immediately disappointed by not being able to write my name (with ú and Á). It can work for Lithuanian, German, English, but not other languages that use different diacritics…